All the latest cinema releases showing in Southport

A BUMPER crop of new releases and previews at Vue this week, including the animated antics of a rat who is also a food connoisseur in Ratatouille, Jodie Foster is a woman on a dark mission in The Brave One and Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween slashes on to the screen.

A BUMPER crop of new releases and previews at Vue this week, including the animated antics of a rat who is also a food connoisseur in Ratatouille, Jodie Foster is a woman on a dark mission in The Brave One and Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween slashes on to the screen.

Ratatouille (U) special preview:

Remy the rat turns his snout up at poor quality food, hence his residence behind the skirting boards of a plush French restaurant.

With those pesky hygiene laws constantly threatening his existence, imagine Remy’s relief when a cub chef needs the sort of culinary know-how only this rat can provide.

Running time: 2hrs.

The Kingdom (15) special preview:

Terrorists invade an American residential compound in Saudi Arabia, shooting on sight and killing hundreds.

Jamie Foxx leads a team of FBI counter-terrorism agents who are eventually allowed into the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to investigate, and face a bureaucratic minefield trying to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Running time: 1hr 50.

Stardust (PG) Gala Screening: Thursday, October 4, 6pm.

Acclaimed fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s tale of a star which crashlands in a magical kingdom, which is in fact a beautiful woman on the run from those who want her powers.

Running time: 2hrs.

Across the Universe (12a) new release:

It is the 1960s, and this love story takes in the civil rights movement, free speech, anti-war protests and some of the greatest pop music ever written.

Moving all the way from the USA to the Liverpool docks this combines live action, animation and many a song from the Fab Four.

Running time: 2hrs 30.

The Brave One (18) new release:

Jodie Foster is radio presenter Erica Bain, living a blissful New York life until the night her fiancee is murdered during an unprovoked assault.

Her life is changed for ever. She gets a gun and spends each night roaming the streets for the men who killed her partner. The quest puts her in situations where she finds it easy to pull the trigger and deal with the criminals who haunt the innocent residents of the Big Apple, but the police are soon on the tail of this new vigilante, and want to stop her.

Running time: 2hrs 20.

Halloween (18) new release:

Is it a wise move to remake John Carpenter’s classic? Rob Zombie, the man behind the disturbing House of a Thousand Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects certainly thinks so. A re-telling of the tale which launched a massive franchise, Michael Myers escapes from the institution he was placed in as a 10-year-old boy after murdering his mother, his sister and her boyfriend, and returns to his home town to continue the killing spree.

Running time: 2hrs 10.

Michael Clayton (15):

George Clooney is Michael Clayton, a ‘fixer’ at one of New York’s biggest corporate law firms. It’s a job he isn’t enamoured with, but he is too tied up with the firm to quit.

Across the city, litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) is waiting for a good result from a case Clayton’s firm is working on to further her career. When that case is sabotaged, Clayton faces the fix of his life to get everything back on track.

Running time: 2hr 10.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (12a):

The first rom-com circulating the new civil partnerships for gay couples is all about two straight firemen pretending to fancy each other in order to get benefits.

Not sure what Peter Tatchell would make of it all, but it stars Adam Sandler and expect lots of comedy grimaces as his character contemplates having to kiss another man.

Running time: 2hrs 20.

Death Proof (18):

Quentin Tarantino returns (the gaps between his films appear to be getting shorter) with this story of a stuntman stalking beautiful women in cars which are as deathproof as the title suggests.

Running time: 2hr 15.

Disturbia (15):

Kale Brecht punches his Spanish teacher while in turmoil over his father’s accidental death and is placed under house arrest.

To relieve the boredom, he begins spying on his neighbours - presumably through the rear window - and is convinced he has seen a murder take place at nearby Mr Turner’s house. Kale becomes determined to unravel the truth, but events start spiralling out of control.

Running time: 1hr 50.

Superbad (15):

Three lads who aren’t the most popular kids in school are determined to pull a hottie before graduation day.

Salvation seems to be an invite to a house party held by one of the most beautiful girls in their year, but entry can only be gained with alcohol. A fake ID is only the beginning to a night the trio will never forget.

Running time: 2hr 15.

3.10 To Yuma (15):

A rancher agrees to hold an outlaw awaiting a train to the courthouse on his property.Before the 3.10 to Yuma leaves, the criminal will do his utmost to get one over the rancher and possibly make a break for it.

Running time: 2hr 20.

Atonement (15):

Based on Ian McEwan’s novel, this is an epic tale beginning with a young girl getting the wrong idea about the relationship between a servant’s son and her older sister, which has consequences that go right through from 1935 until the Second World War.

Running time: 2hr 20.

Run, Fatboy, Run (12a):

Simon Pegg moves further up the movie star ranks in this David Schwimmer-directed comedy about a chunky fellow who dumps his pregnant fiancee at the altar. Five years later, he realises his mistake, and sets his sights on running a marathon to win her back.

Running time: 2hrs.

The Bourne Ultimatum (12a):

Matt Damon returns as Jason Bourne in this third instalment of the amnesiac agent franchise.

Bourne is on the precipice of finally learning who he really is, but before that can happen, he has to deal with a team of assassins sent out to eliminate him.

Running time: 2hr 20.

Evan Almighty (PG):

An unusual idea for a sequel in that the character of Evan Baxter from Jim Carrey’s Bruce Almighty gets all the plot to himself.

He has left the TV station in Buffalo for the greener pastures of Congress in Washington DC. However, the calling is not political, as God (Morgan Freeman) contacts Evan and orders him to build a new ark, as the time has come where such a vessel is needed once again.

Running time: 2hrs.

WE have a pair of Vue cinema tickets to give away to one lucky Southport Visiter reader in this week’s competition.

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